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Fox Chase Cancer Center
Received top ranking in the region and sixth-place ranking in the nation as Best Place to Work in a survey of postdoctoral researchers conducted by the trade magazine, The Scientist.

Gregory P. Adams, PhD
Scientific Advisory Panel: IBC's 5th International Recombinant Antibodies Congress, Zurich, Switzerland
Session Chairman and Invited Speaker: "Enhancing Tumor Targeting Specificity by Co-Targeting Two Tumor Associated Antigens," IBC's 5th International Recombinant Antibodies Congress, Zurich, Switzerland
Invited Speaker: "Cancer Imaging and Therapy with Anti-HER2 Diabodies," American Association of Pharmaceutical Scientists National Biotechnology Conference, Boston, MA; "HER2 Antibodies for Cancer Therapy," International Society of Oncodevelopmental Biology and Medicine (ISOBM) Annual Meeting, Pasadena, CA; "Enhancing Tumor Targeting Specificity," Rudbeck Laboratories, University of Uppsala, Sweden; "Antibody-based Tumor Targeting and Therapy," Departments of Immunology, Diagnostic Radiology and Radiation Physics, Umea University, Sweden

Penny R. Anderson, MD
Keynote Address at the Annual Scientific Meeting of the Gynecology Oncology Group

Alfonso Bellacosa, MD, PhD
Invited Speaker: "Microarray Analysis of LCM-Dissected Colorectal Tumors" and Session Chairman: "Clinical Applications of LCM," Getting Optimized Targets Summit-Laser Capture Microscopy Meeting, Boston, MA

Baruch S. Blumberg, MD, PhD
Awarded the Honorary Degree of Doctor of Science, Susquehanna University, Selinsgrove, PA
Inaugural Lecture: Association of Senior and Emeritus Faculty, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA
First United Therapeutics Lecture in Virology, Department of Biochemistry, Oxford University, "Hepatitis B. The first cancer vaccine"
Appointed Trustees' Distinguished Scholar in Residence, Hepatitis B Foundation, Doylestown, PA

Denise C. Connolly, PhD
Invited Lectures: 1st International Conference on Ovarian Cancer: State of the Art and Future Directions, Crete, Greece, "Modeling Ovarian Cancer Through Transgenic Approaches"
Creative Beginnings (Fox Chase Cancer Center's day care)
Received the 2006 Best Place to Work Award from the Delaware Valley Association for the Education of Young Children

Edna Cukierman, PhD
Received The AACR Career Development Award 2006-2007; The W.W Smith Charitable Trust Award 2005-2007
Invited Lecturer/Speaker: Tumor Microenvironment Interest Group Seminar Series, at the Wistar Institute, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA; Department of Anatomy & Cell Biology Seminar Series, at Tufts University School of Medicine, Boston, MA; Gastroenterology Division Seminar Series, at the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA; Pennsylvania Muscle Institute Seminar Series, at the School of Medicine of the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA

Karthik Devarajan, PhD
Invited Review: "Non-Negative Matrix Factorization in Computational Biology - a Review." In Neuroscience Reviews, PLoS Computational Biology, June 2006

Jenny Pickworth Glusker, DPhil, DSc
Guest Plenary Speaker: The Mid-Hudson Section of the American Chemical Society, 7th Annual Undergraduate Chemistry Research Symposium, Vassar College, "How Three-Dimensional Structures of Molecules are Determined: A Historical Survey" Invited Plenary Lectures: Inaugural Dorothy Crowfoot Symposium, The University of Zurich-Irchel, "Dorothy Hodgkin: The Quest to View the Molecules of Life"; (Visiting Professor, International Union of Crystallography), 2nd Turkish Crystallographic Meeting Kayseri, Turkey, Erciyes University, Kayseri, Turkey, "21st Century Structure Determination by Diffraction Methods: What do Students Need to Know" and "Hydrogen and Metal Ions in Proteins"
Invited Talk: LANSCE Joint Neutron Scattering School in Soft and Condensed Matter and Structural Biology, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, New Mexico, "Neutron Biomolecular Crystallography for Studying Enzyme Mechanisms"

Erica A. Golemis, PhD
Invited Speaker at the FASEB Summer Conference on GTPases

Elizabeth Petri Henske, PhD
Elected to Board of Directors, the Tuberous Sclerosis Alliance

Eileen K. Jaffe, PhD
Inaugural Induction into the Academic Hall of Fame, SUNY Cortland, Cortland, NY Received the 2006 Elizabeth W. Bingham Award from the Philadelphia Chapter of the Association for Women in Science
Invited Speaker: Drexel University, Philadelphia, PA; Gordon Research Conference on Enzymes, CoEnzymes & Metabolic Pathways, Biddeford, ME; Emory University, Atlanta GA; Delaware Valley Enzymology Club, Springfield, PA; Thomas Jefferson University, Philadelphia, PA

V. Craig Jordan, OBE, PhD, DSc
Awarded the American Cancer Society Award for Chemoprevention from the American Society of Clinical Oncology
Invited Speaker: AstraZeneca Science Lecturer, Royal Australasian Surgical Society, Annual Meeting, Sydney Australia; Opening Plenary Lecture, Japanese Breast Cancer Society, Annual Meeting, Kanazawa, Japan; American Cancer Society Award Lecture, American Society of Clinical Oncology Annual Meeting, Atlanta, GA; Successful Translational Research with SERMS, Professor Manfred Kaufmann Symposium, Frankfurt, Germany
Received the 2007 Gregory Pincus Memorial Award and Medal, Worcester Foundation for Biomedical Research, University of Massachusetts Medical School Elected to Board of Directors for the American Association for Cancer Research (2007-2010)

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